Lockdown: Kanyamunyu dies of extreme hunger

By Charles Katabalwa

6^th July 2021

A man only identified as Kanyamunyu has collapsed to death in a suspected case of extreme hunger.

Kanyamunyu, a porter in Industrial area, collapsed from Kasanvu zone, Namuwongo in Makindye Division.

Richard Biresho, the area Chairperson, says that Kanyamunyu breathed his last at his office around 7pm last evening where he had pitched camp asking for food relief on grounds that he was starving.

Biresho says that the deceased looked frail, weak and emaciated an indication that he could have gone days without food.

According to Biresho, the deceased stopped working when the government imposed the 42-day lock-down in the effort to combat the spread of COVID-19.

He explains that many people are flocking his office for relief support because of starvation, saying that many people could start dying in their homes.

Police is said to have taken almost an hour before it arrived at the scene. On arrival the officers refused to put the deceased on their patrol in fear that he could be a Coronavirus patient. It took them another 2 hours before the ambulance arrived and the body was taken to the city mortuary.

Many people are asking government to hurry the exercise of verifying the names of over 50,000 people who are said to be the beneficiaries of the 100,000/= each promised by the Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja for food aid in the 42 day lockdown that started on June 18, 2021.